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For me was great show and organisation there and vibe in Paris was great all the Games.

I expect some decency after Paris 2024 travesty.
Nothing more.
Paris will always be remembered (at least for many people) as lowest point of oppenings in recent history.

writing here because it's going to heavily impact on the Olympics, but it's part of a way bigger blow for many sports in Italy 
 
earlier Today, the Italian idiots running the government did change the rules about getting the Italian citizenship because of the heritage (ius sanguinis)
now, only foreigners with at least 1 parent or grandfather/grandmother born in Italy will be able to ask for our citizenship
now all those people with the Italian heritage coming from men/women further down the family tree won't get it because of that (of course they will still be able to earn it following the remaining pathways, like marriage or living here for at least 5 consecutive years -if coming from EU Nations, 10 if coming from outside EU)
 
this is basically the end of any chance to have an Italian competitive team in all those team sports where there are not enough athletes practicing within our Country like ice hockey, field hockey, baseball, cricket, lacrosse, flag football and even rugby (just to name the olympic sports), all disciplines where we always relied on major help from foreign born Italians
 
but this soon will affect also a few individual sports, when the consequences of the pandemic stoppage will come into effect (soon)
 
for this thread's purpose, it' obvious that now we won't have any chance to have a decent hockey team at the 2026 Home Olympics; we are forced to stay with the current shameful B division bunch of drunk players that can't even skate

I love these reactions. They always have the strongest Any man who must say, "I am the King", is no true king vibes  

Ghiotto did the same as Eitrem, but way more often (just not destroying the timing thing, but it's not like what you did is worse if you hit the timing thing). They should either both be DQ'ed or both not be DQ'ed, personally I am definitely in favour of both not being DQ'ed (as is the case).

what kind of sport  meeting does an opening ceremony with one round of a event to go ? this couldn't have been done anytime sooner ?

Fun fact: all individual winners today (Dandjinou, Desmet, Dubois) were also the winners of those distances at Stage 5 of the World Tour in  Tilburg.

oh, c'mon! we don't need to be like Qatar or Bahrein...we don't need to go shopping in places where there's no sign of a true connection between those people and our Country
 
one thing is trying to take advantage of all the athletes with Italian heritage grown up in other Nations, but just "buying" Russians or Africans here and there to win a couple of medals here and there, no thanks! 

I dare say also doesn't cheat in ski jumping  

Austria started this ski jumping arms race at the beginning of the 21 century, that continues to this day. I'm sure they bend the rules all the time, and when someone else does something similar, like Norway now, or Ammann in Vancouver 2010, they're the first to attack others. This video also came from them - they gave it to the polish journalist so as not to directly connect Austria with this action. I think this is not the end and there will be further actions and provocations, because Norway and the group of countries standing with it: the USA and Estonia will not forgive Austria for making this illegal video public.

Harris laughes weird. We dodged a huge bullet here, imagine if we had her as president. We'd be stuck with economic and political stability.

Coincidentally today I overheard Kevin Bolger talk with someone about it, they were all pretty disappointed at seeing the tiny start list today and felt they should speak with the athletes about whether or not they actually wanted a 50k.
 
I also heard him talk about the insane noise around the track yesterday, he said it felt like his ears were popping constantly and that Maja Dahlqvist's first words to him this morning were "I'm scared"  

Schilder most likely had the best series of the decade in women's shot put.

Woah, drama in the Triple as * Diaz Hernandez jumping in the 5th round comes up with WL 17.71 to win it!
 
* OK, I'm betting 

I asked a journalist on another forum and Turri was DQ because the heel cups were not firmly attached to the shoes. Info comes from GM of the Finnish Athletics Federation.

Bos! 
 
First gold for  at a Skeleton World Championships 

Van Diepen was so useless that he was the 2nd fastest of the third round athletes. 

In fact it was  Pipi who got lucky because Swiety's LL time was the one ahead of her.

Worth mentioning that Flow is the first ever Oscar win for a Latvian film!

Helena Oeberg promptly finished 30th and last. Probably the only race in history where siblings finished 1st and last

Long way to go before you catch up with  track athletes turned drug mules.

With the ridiculous rhetoric from the moron leading the USA, this win is just delicious.

After a long and slow comeback from severe injury in 2022...... Egan Bernal crashes and breaks his collarbone in the Classica Jaen.
 
Egan Bernal breaks collarbone in Clasica Jaen-Paraiso Interior crash - BBC Sport

is awarded a 3-0 walkover vs but will play the next match behind closed doors